Aurora F. Alberti-Gordon, ’41
Bethesda, Md.
March 22, 2009
Dr. Alberti-Gordon received training at Jersey City Medical Center in Newark, N.J., and the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. She received additional training in pediatric allergy & immunology and for several years worked at the Andrew Rader U.S. Army Allergy Clinic in Fort Myer, Va. She enjoyed writing poetry and had several pieces of her work published. She was also an outspoken supporter of animal rights

Paul C. Kundahl, ’42
Mercer Island, Wash.
February 21, 2009

Myles E. Drake, ’44
Columbus, Ohio
September 3, 2006
Dr. Drake stayed at Maryland for internship and residency training in pediatrics, before accepting a fellowship in infectious diseases at Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania. His primary focus was pediatrics with a sub-specialty in mental retardation and infectious diseases. Drake served as president of the American Heart Association, Cumberland County Medical Society, the New Jersey section of the American Pediatric Society, and he headed the staffs at Newcomb Hospital in Vineland, N.J., and Elmer Hospital in Elmer, N.J. He maintained an affiliation with the University of Pennsylvania and served on the NIH grants committee. He enjoyed golf and classical music. Drake was preceded in death by wife Edythe and is survived by one son.

Francis K. Machata, ’47
North Kingstown, R.I.
March 30, 2009
Wilson Memorial Hospital in Johnson City, N.Y., was the site of Dr. Machata’s internship, followed by residency training in internal medicine at Biggs Memorial Hospital in Ithaca and St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester. During the Korean War, Machata served with the U.S. Air Force at Goose Bay, Labrador, Thule, Greenland as well as Mitchell Air Force Base in New York. After the war, he practiced internal medicine and developed a reputation for solving perplexing cases. Colleagues often referred patients to him. His career was hampered by illness, however, as in 1959, he developed hepatitis and had relapses in 1961, 1966, and 1971. From 1966 until retirement in 1983, Machata served as an industrial physician for Eastman Kodak Company. He enjoyed reading, golf, gardening, and he had a large collection of classical 33” records. Machata could write and speak Slovak and had visited Czechoslovakia three times. He is survived by wife Joan, three sons, one daughter, and four grandchildren.

William H. Slasman, ’53
Hagerstown, Md.
March 14, 2009
During World War II, Dr. Slasman served in the U.S. Navy before attending medical school. Upon graduation, he practiced otolaryngology and later, phlebology. He practiced in Baltimore until 1965 when he relocated to Hagerstown. Slasman was past president of the Washington County Medical Society and was a member of the Washington County Hospital Staff Executive Committee. He was a charter member of the Hagerstown Symphony Orchestra board and past president of the Hagerstown Rotary Club. Slasman is survived by wife Annette, three daughters, and six grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one granddaughter.

William J. Marshall, ’58
Hilliard, Ohio
June 9, 2009
Dr. Marshall performed his internship at Philadelphia General Hospital, followed by residency training in internal medicine and a cardiology fellowship at Cincinnati General Hospital. From 1964 to 1968, he was an investigator at the Cox Heart Institute in Kettering. Marshall became director of the coronary intensive care unit at Kettering Memorial Hospital in 1967 and director of its non-invasive cardiac lab and inpatient cardiac rehabilitation center in 1972. He stepped down from these positions in 1992 when he also retired from Dayton Internal Medicine Associates, a practice he began in 1968. Appointments included associate dean for clinical affairs at Wright State University School of Medicine and president of the Montgomery County Health District in 1990. He and wife Barbara established an endowed professorship in motion disorders at Maryland. Marshall enjoyed reading, sports, fishing, and spending time with grandchildren. He is survived by wife Barbara, three children, and eight grandchildren.

John N. Diaconis, ’61
Timonium, Md.
March 29, 2009
After an internship at Maryland and the beginning of a surgery residency here, Dr. Diaconis switched to radiology and passed his board examinations in 1967. He began practicing radiology at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas and served as an assistant clinical professor at Texas Southwestern Medical School. He returned to Maryland and joined the faculty in 1972. Diaconis was credited with improving the quality of instruction for residents and students, and he initiated daily conferences and a lecture series within the department which continue today. Diaconis served as acting chair of the department for four years when chairman John Dennis, ’45, was appointed dean, and for a time he worked with the local VA hospitals affiliated with Maryland. Diaconis retired in 1999. He was a member of the Elm Society of the John Beale Davidge Alliance, the medical school’s society for major donors. He is survived by one son, one daughter, and two grandchildren. His marriage to wife Linda ended in divorce.

Donald B. Causton, ’78
Destin, Fla.
January 5, 2009
Dr. Causton practiced family and geriatric medicine in Destin and South Walton, Florida, for 26 years. He enjoyed fast cars, motorcylces, and boats. He is survived by two children and two grandchildren.

Mark E. “Duke” Bainum, ’80
Honolulu
June 9, 2009
Dr. Bainum performed his internship and residency training in surgery at the University of Hawaii, working at Queens, Kuakini, Kaiser, and St. Francis hospitals. In 1984, he responded to an appeal for volunteer doctors, serving for four months as the lone physician in a 36-bed hospital in Himalayan Nepal. Developing an interest in public health, Bainum returned to Honolulu and was elected to the Honolulu House of Representatives in 1990. He later served two four-year terms on the Honolulu City Council, before receiving a degree in business and serving as chairman of Diamond State Bank in Arkansas from 1999 to 2004. Later in 2004, he was defeated in an election for Honolulu mayor. He had recently been re-elected to the city council. Bainum is survived by wife Jennifer and two sons. He is also survived by brother Timothy E., ’76.

Faculty
Charles A. Barraclough, PhD
Baltimore
April 19, 2009
Dr. Barraclough was a physiologist and neuroendocrinologist at Maryland from 1962 to 1993. Born in Vineland, N.J., Barraclough earned a degree in biology from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia before attending Rutgers University for a master’s and doctorate degree in endocrinology. He was a post-doctorate fellow and later an assistant professor at UCLA Medical School where he studied the sexual differential in the brain, specifically how testosterone exposure permanently alters the brain control of reproductive processes in men and women. He furthered his studies at the University of Cambridge in 1961 before joining the faculty at Maryland the following year. While at Maryland, Barraclough established the center for studies in reproduction in 1985 where he continued his work on how neurotransmitters regulate pituitary gland secretions and ovulation. He was widely published. Upon retirement in 1993, Barraclough was named professor emeritus. He enjoyed golf and was a member of the Country Club of Maryland. Barraclough also liked gardening and music, and he attended Baltimore Colts games. He is survived by wife Eleanor, two daughters, and four grandchildren.

Emidio A. Bianco, MD
Baltimore
March 17, 2009
Dr. Bianco was an associate professor of medicine at Maryland from 1983 to 1992. Born in Baltimore, Bianco served as a medical technician with the MASH unit in Germany during World War II and was discharged with the rank of master sergeant. He earned his medical degree from Georgetown University in 1954 and established a private practice in Woodlawn. He later moved near St. Agnes Hospital and in 1960 became the hospital’s first director of medical education. In 1967, he became chief of medicine and two years later was promoted to medical director. He left St. Agnes in 1975 to become medical director for Mercy Southern Health Center and afterwards became chairman of the department of emergency medicine at Hanover (Pa.) General Hospital. His appointment at Maryland followed, and he also taught anatomy at Georgetown University. Bianco earned a law degree from the University of Baltimore in 1978, motivated by the volume of malpractice and frivolous lawsuits. From 1978 until retirement in 1995, he served as medicolegal officer and assistant chairman for professional affairs in the legal medicine department at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. He enjoyed music and was an accomplished violinist as well as a season ticket holder to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He also attended Baltimore Colts and Orioles games. Bianco is survived by six daughters, two sons, 17 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. His marriage to Mary Lancelotta ended in divorce.

Edward W. Campbell Jr., MD
Lutherville, Md
June 2, 2009
Dr. Campbell was a professor in the department of urology, serving at Maryland from 1964 to 1997. He was born in Philadelphia and earned an undergraduate degree from Amherst College and medical degree from Hahnemann Medical College. He moved to Baltimore in 1959 to study at the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital and during that time received training in general surgery at Maryland. In 1964, Campbell joined the late John D. Young Jr., ’41, and Earl P. Galleher Jr., MD, in a urological partnership at Maryland where they trained residents and taught students. His specific interest was neurological dysfunction relating to urological patients. In 1985, he served as president of the medical center’s medical board, and in 1992 was president of the Mid-Atlantic section of the American Urologic Association. He continued working in the urology clinic after retirement in 1997. Campbell enjoyed sailing on the Chesapeake Bay, playing golf, and spending time with grandchildren. He is survived by wife Patty, one son, two daughters, and six grandchildren.